From Allahpundit at Hot Air:
The text’s not online yet but it sounds like they scaled back the accusation from the entire movement to simply certain unspecified people within it. Which is the safe route, of course. Smearing everyone would go too far even by the standards of some liberals, including The One…
From this point on, anyone with any sense of decency should have nothing to do with the NAACP. The TEA Party is not racist – and given what we see here, it is likely there are more racists in the NAACP than in the TEA Party. I am sick to death of this – I am not racist; I do not associate with racists; I do not tolerate racism – when some liberal says groups I belong to has racist elements they are essentially saying that I am a racist. I’m furious at this sort of thing.
A once proud and useful organization has gone entirely in to the gutter. Shame on them.
UPDATE: Sarah Palin weighs in:
I am saddened by the NAACP’s claim that patriotic Americans who stand up for the United States of America’s Constitutional rights are somehow “racists.” The charge that Tea Party Americans judge people by the color of their skin is false, appalling, and is a regressive and diversionary tactic to change the subject at hand…
Agreed.
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